Barker out of retirement
Ronnie to play Churchill's valet
16/10/2001 … Ronnie Barker is to come out of retirement for a big-budget BBC film about Winston Churchill.
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Tue 16 October 2001
Mon 15 October 2001
The old ones are the best
15/10/2001 … A comedy club is out to prove that experience triumphs over youth with a special 'old gits night'.
Davidson trains IDS
15/10/2001 … If Iain Duncan Smith starts knocking out 'Chalkie' and 'nick-nick' gags at the next Tory conference, you'll know who to blame.
Acorn Antiques returns
15/10/2001 … Victoria Wood has written some new Acorn Antiques scripts for a new TV show charting the history of sketch comedy.
Under the influence
15/10/2001 … Clive Anderson, Lee Evans and Alistair McGowan are to talk about their comic influences in a new Radio Two series.
Thu 11 October 2001
'I stalked Ken Dodd'
Obsessive fan tried to torch house
11/10/2001 … A woman has admitted stalking Ken Dodd, sending indecent photographs and a dead rat to his home, which she tried to burn down.
Mayall's a Cnut
Character name to cause a storm
11/10/2001 … First he was a B'stard, now he's a Cnut.